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Nope, its all dry fitted as far as I know, although the slight step to the patio doors is glued and I *think* the 2 planks into the back door have been glued

I do appreciate what everyone is saying, really! :D and I'm really not in denial about it :P Can I just sanity check what I've done / what I'm doing? This is a plan of the rooms with the floor. It transitions between the main room and the study through the door. There are no...

I'll have a look round the top and bottom edges of the room - width wise there isn't a problem, its only length wise. The expansion gap is covered by skirting board, fixed with (I think) glue, and maybe the occasional nail. I guess the question is, should it return to normal once its had...

No plastering done, no. Those photos are 2 years old - not recent, so there is nothing stacked, and only the furniture remains. I just posted them to give an idea on layout, fitting, and size of expansion gaps. However the floor has bulged upwards / lifted literally in front of the...

Yup, still loads of space all around the hearth - enough to get a fair few pencils in! Well, 2 anyway... you can see the gap here (and around the rest of the room in fact) when the floor was laid 2 years ago. The gap round the hearth is probably the same as in this pic!: Here is...

It is effectively a floating floor, yes, and nothing has been placed into the gaps

Help / advice needed!!! We have a solid maple floor on adhesive foam underlay which has been down for approaching 2 years without any problems at all. Its a long room, and these were (logically) laid widthways across the room. We came home yesterday to find that the floor has warped in...

OK, thread dredge time! Just a sanity check on what I'm planning...! I think I'm about to settle on installing 50mm Recticel (PUR) into the eaves between the joists. This will allow me to add more on top of the joists later if I desire. We're looking to install some eaves cupboards at some...

OK, I accept that this is probably the dumbest question ever :oops: , but.... I'm blocking off an internal door, within a block wall. There are a couple of pipes mounted on the wall about an inch from the door. I've removed the architrave carefully, but do I need to remove the door frame...

Ah well, contacted the manufacturer, and they've advised its a no-go. Shame though - £50 is a bit of a bargin for something like that I seem to think

For want of a better place to put this topic, I've put it here, so sorry if its the wrong place! I've been offered a Stovax Huntingdon multi-fuel fire for £50. It has until now been oil fed, plumbed into an external oil tank, apparently on the same system as the central heating. I'd be...

I've got no objection to buying a telly, but sod putting it in the bathroom! If we're talking 3D tellys, that can go in the living room, and she can have the rubbish LCD we've got there for the bathroom!!! :P

you're all being an awful lot more positive about it than I thought you'd be! :P I thought it would just be a big no-no, and not to touch it with a barge pole, but nooooooo would she listen? She wants to watch the fish in silence as she relaxes in the bath.... However on the basis that...

My other half has asked whether it would be possible to put a fish tank at the end of the bath in the bathroom. This would be on the same level as the top of the bath. I'd guess this is zone 1. Electrics could theoretically come through the wall next to the bath. The other side of this...

Cheers for that! :) The problem is that there is some storage in the eaves on the north side of the house, and in fact the boiler is in there too, so even if I did insulate the floor and wall, I'd still be heating the eaves from the heat of the boiler. Hence not having much choice about...

I'm going to try to ping this back up again to see if I can get any response... :? I'm still in the same position as last year, and this house is bloody freezing - I'm sure its colder than it was last winter. I've double insulated the floor, and most of the walls of the south east...